Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal - Rosa Luxemburghttp://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/176/0
enRosa Luxemburg and the revolutionary party revisitedhttp://links.org.au/rosa-luxemburg-revolutionary-party-revisited
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By Eric Blanc<p>&nbsp;</p>
March 10, 2018 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">— </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-revolutionary-party-revisited/" style="font-size: 14.6667px">John Riddell's Marxist essays and commentary</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">This article re-examines Rosa Luxemburg’s approach to the party question by analysing the overlooked experience of her political intervention and organisation in Poland. In particular, I challenge the myth that Rosa Luxemburg advocated a ‘party of the whole class’, ‘spontaneism’ or consistent party democracy. The perspectives and practices of her party – the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) – demonstrate that there were no steady strategic differences between Luxemburg and V.I. Lenin on the role of a revolutionary party. In practice, the most consequential divergence between their parties was that the Bolsheviks, unlike the SDKPiL, became more effective in mass workers’ struggles during and following the 1905 revolution.<p><a href="http://links.org.au/rosa-luxemburg-revolutionary-party-revisited">read more</a></p>Eric BlancRosa LuxemburgSat, 10 Mar 2018 07:08:38 -0500fred5218 at http://links.org.auRosa Luxemburg’s bloc with the SPD bureaucracyhttp://links.org.au/rosa-luxemburg-bloc-spd-bureaucracy
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By <b>Eric Blanc</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
February 3. 2018 — </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/fruits-and-perils-of-the-bloc-within/" style="font-size: 14.6667px">John Riddell's Marxist Essays and Commentary website</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — Rosa Luxemburg’s contributions to the revolutionary movement and the development of Marxism are undeniably important. Yet many writers today uncritically romanticise Luxemburg as a humanistic, undogmatic, and democratic alternative to Social Democracy, Leninism, and/or Stalinism. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, for example, argues that Luxemburg ‘inaugurated the heritage of an alternative understanding of Marxism with a revolutionary humanist face, as distinct from liberalism, social democratic revisionism as well as Stalinist authoritarianism. It is through the lens of Rosa Luxemburg that it is possible to understand what went wrong with Soviet socialism and how we can reposition our understanding of socialism in the twenty-first century.’[1]<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/rosa-luxemburg-bloc-spd-bureaucracy">read more</a></p>Eric BlancRosa LuxemburgFri, 02 Feb 2018 08:45:07 -0500fred5194 at http://links.org.auEntretejer las Rosas desobedienteshttp://links.org.au/entretejer-rosas-luxemburgo-parks-desobedientes
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[Original in English <a href="http://links.org.au/disobedient-roses-rosa-luxemburg-parks-civil-disobedience">here</a>.]<p>&nbsp;</p>
Por <b>Nevin Siders V.</b><p>&nbsp;</p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt">31 de mayo, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"></span> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Cuando me propuse elaborar este ensayo me imaginé que fuera una meta sencilla pero, como el lector verá, resultó que implicaba entretejer hilos diversos, por lo que consumía más tiempo de lo previsto. Pero siento que el resultado hizo valer el esfuerzo, abriendo un tantito territorio nuevo para el socialismo. El ensayo abre con rescatar una de las más duraderas posturas de Rosa Luxemburgo, y conjugarla con un tema que (al conocimiento de este autor) no se ha asociado con esta gigante del pensamiento socialista: la desobediencia civil.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/entretejer-rosas-luxemburgo-parks-desobedientes">read more</a></p>EspanolMexicoRosa LuxemburgWed, 31 May 2017 00:28:10 -0400fred5068 at http://links.org.auDisobedient Roseshttp://links.org.au/disobedient-roses-rosa-luxemburg-parks-civil-disobedience
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: 11pt"><img src="https://openclipart.org/download/218772/rosaparks-face.svg" height="197" align="right" width="156" /><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ff/07/9b/ff079b13974f7c2a30c4db7e08b21365.jpg" height="197" align="left" width="189" /></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By <b>Nevin Siders</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p>
May 26, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"></span> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span></span>When I began this essay I thought I aimed at a rather modest target, but the “story grew in the telling” and reached out further and further to interweave more and more threads, and therefore required much more time and thought than originally foreseen. Yet I believe the effort to have been worthwhile, opening a bit of new territory for socialism. It sets out from one of Rosa Luxemburg’s most enduring postulates and conjugates it with the topic of civil disobedience which, (as far as the author knows, has never been associated with this giant of socialist thought.<p>&nbsp;</p>
One of the protagonists of the civil disobedience movement was Rosa Parks, the other “rose” to whom this monograph is dedicated to and honored in the title, for being a quintessential representative of civil disobedience as understood and practiced by Gandhi and King.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/disobedient-roses-rosa-luxemburg-parks-civil-disobedience">read more</a></p>MexicoRosa LuxemburgThu, 25 May 2017 23:29:08 -0400fred5061 at http://links.org.auRedeeming the revolution: A review of “October 1917 - Workers in Power”http://links.org.au/redeeming-revolution-october-1917-workers-power
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img height="220" width="150" src="http://resistancebooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/October-1917-front-ipg-300x440.jpg" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
Reviewed by <b>Doug Enaa Greene</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
<i>October 1917 – Workers in Power.</i><br />
Paul Le Blanc, Ernest Mandel, David Mandel, François Vercammen, and contemporary texts by Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Leon Trotsky.<br />
Edited by Fred Leplat and Alex de Jong <br />
London: Merlin Press, the IIRE and Resistance Books, 2016. 256 pages<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/redeeming-revolution-october-1917-workers-power">read more</a></p>Doug Enaa GreeneErnest MandelLeninPaul Le BlancreviewRosa LuxemburgRussian RevolutionTrotskyThu, 26 Jan 2017 03:01:08 -0500fred4951 at http://links.org.auThe critical communism of Antonio Labriola http://links.org.au/critical-communism-antonio-labriola-doug-greene
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://isreview.org/sites/default/files/styles/400x400/public/issue/103/story/1943/labriola.jpg?itok=eZMrgXx2" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="400" width="305" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>By <b>Doug Enaa Greene</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
December 30, 2016 –– <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <a href="http://isreview.org/issue/103/critical-communism-antonio-labriola"><i>International Socialist Review</i></a> with the author’s permission –– Antonio Labriola, if he is known today at all, is remembered as a minor Marxist theorist in the Second International, overshadowed by such well known figures as Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, or Eduard Bernstein. Sometimes Labriola will be mentioned as a formative influence on the Marxism of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky. Yet Labriola deserves to be known and studied based on his own merits. He provided a critique of Second International orthodox Marxism, arguing that it divorced theory and practice, engaged in sterile, dogmatic systematization, and held to an economically deterministic form of Marxism. Labriola revived Marxism as an open philosophy of praxis, that is, as a critical and revolutionary method. He did not take for granted the inevitability of historical progress, but argued that it was necessary for socialists to intervene actively in shaping it.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/critical-communism-antonio-labriola-doug-greene">read more</a></p>Doug Enaa GreeneGramscihistoryItalyLabriolaLeninRosa LuxemburgFri, 30 Dec 2016 04:54:22 -0500fred4922 at http://links.org.au‘The hammer blow of the revolution’: Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of bourgeois democracyhttp://links.org.au/node/4785
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By <b>Michael Löwy</b>, translated by <b>Dan La Botz</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
August 8, 2016 — <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <i><a href="http://newpol.org/content/hammer-blow-revolution">New Politics</a> </i>— Rosa Luxemburg’s defense of socialist democracy and her critique of the Bolsheviks in her pamphlet <i>The Russian Revolution</i> (1918) are well known. Less well known and often forgotten is her critique of bourgeois democracy, its limits, its contradictions, and its narrow and partial character. <p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4785">read more</a></p>Dan La BotzMarxist theoryMichael LowyRosa LuxemburgSun, 07 Aug 2016 11:25:06 -0400fred4785 at http://links.org.auThe Kiental Manifesto: Socialists against war, 1916http://links.org.au/node/4675
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://socialistworker.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/242/images/luxemburg2-recropped.jpg" width="242" height="308" align="top" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
<center><i>Rosa Luxemburg’s Spartacists called at Kiental for a new International.</i></center><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>John Riddell</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
April 27, 2016 -- <i><a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i>
reposted from
<a href="https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/the-kiental-manifesto-socialists-against-war-1916/"> John Riddell’s blog </a>
with permission -- One hundred years ago this week, socialist opponents of the First World War gathered in Kiental, Switzerland, issued an appeal calling on working people to “use every means possible to bring a rapid end to the human slaughter.” The appeal, known as the “Kiental Manifesto,” appears below.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4675">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalinternationalismJohn RiddellRosa LuxemburgWorld War IWed, 27 Apr 2016 03:23:42 -0400fred4675 at http://links.org.auANZACs: New film reveals what should not be forgotten -- or forgivenhttp://links.org.au/node/4396
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<div align="center"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt">See also &quot;<b><a href="/node/2277" target="_blank">Australia &amp; New Zealand: The imperialist reality behind ANZAC myth</a></b>&quot;. For more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/858" target="_blank"><b>World War I, click HERE</b></a><br /></span></p></div><p>Film by <b>John Rainford</b> and <b>Peter Ewer</b>
</p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>April 24, 2015 -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8W1PDkZhEDTV9H31hwJQqQ" target="_blank">Green Left TV</a>/<a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58652" target="_blank"><i>Green Left Weekly</i></a>//<a href="/node/4396" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- As the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign approaches, this timely short film cuts through the myth making, and shows with damning facts how lives were used as fodder as strategic and tactical blunders led to the slaughter of so many.
</p><p>It reveals the context behind the Gallipoli campaign - a war fought because the world had been cut up into colonies by the major powers who were now battling for the spoils.
</p><p>The film shows exactly why the terrible ANZAC Cove campaign should never be forgotten — and the crimes of the warmongers responsible never forgiven.
<p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4396">read more</a></p>antiwarANZACsAustraliahistoryIWWmultimediaRosa LuxemburgvideoWorld War IThu, 23 Apr 2015 21:31:40 -0400normd4396 at http://links.org.auGermany, 1918-1923: the fire and the spirit of revolutionhttp://links.org.au/node/4317
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<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qb5v8oJkOmo?rel=0" frameborder="0" height="315" width="520"></iframe><p><i>The German Revolution of 1918-1923 not only saw the collapse of the monarchy, but the real possibility of communism spreading into the heart of Europe. Communist historian Doug Enaa Greene lectures on the course of the revolution and the reasons why it didn't succeed. Presented at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCenterForMarxistEducation&amp;redir_token=VyGKHEk0h1H9XHWcNSSR5OLJgUN8MTQyNTM2Njk2NUAxNDI1MjgwNTY1" target="_blank">Center of Marxist Education</a>.</i></p></center>
</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>Click for more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/468" target="_blank"><b>Communist Party of Germany</b></a>; and more by <a href="/taxonomy/term/878" target="_blank"><b>Doug Enaa Greene</b></a></p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">By <b>Doug Enaa Greene</b></span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4317">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalDoug Enaa GreeneEuropeGerman Communist Party (KPD)GermanyhistorymultimediaRosa LuxemburgvideoMon, 02 Mar 2015 06:41:23 -0500normd4317 at http://links.org.auSocialists and World War I: Turn the imperialist war into a civil warhttp://links.org.au/node/4278
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<center><img src="http://www.iww.org/graphics/cartoons/iww/warplant.jpg" /><p><i>Industrial Workers of the World poster against WWI.</i></p></center>
</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><a href="/taxonomy/term/858" target="_blank">Read more on <b>World War I</b></a>.</span></span></span></span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By
<b>Doug Enaa Greene</b></p>
<p>February
2, 2015 – <a href="/node/4278" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal</i></a> --<span> </span>It has been a
hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. The centennial of the
“war to end all wars” has seen countless commemorations of the millions of
heroic soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice for king and country.</p>
<p>Yet
missing from all of the observances of the war are the deeper questions of its
causes – to divide colonies among predatory ruling classes – and the heroism of
those who opposed the mass slaughter. And for the left, that is how we should
remember this 100th anniversary – but honoring those socialists and communists
who fought against all the odds to end the slaughter.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4278">read more</a></p>antiwarDoug Enaa GreeneEuropeGermanyhistoryIrelandItalyIWWJames ConnollyJohn MacLeanKautskyLeninRosa LuxemburgScotlandsocial democracySocialist PartyUnited StatesWorld War IMon, 02 Feb 2015 20:57:52 -0500normd4278 at http://links.org.au‘Socialism or barbarism’: An important socialist slogan traced to its unexpected sourcehttp://links.org.au/node/4114
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<div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://johnriddell.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/luxemburg-b.jpg?w=497" class="size-full wp-image-2101" alt="Rosa Luxemburg" height="278" width="318" /></div><p align="center"><i>Rosa Luxemburg.</i></p><p>By <b>Ian Angus</b></p><p>October 21, 2014 --<a href="http://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-origin-of-rosa-luxemburgs-slogan-socialism-or-barbarism/" target="_blank"><i> Johnriddell.wordpress.com</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4114" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> with permission -- I think I have solved a small puzzle in socialist history.<i> </i><a href="http://www.climateandcapitalism.com/" target="_blank"><i>Climate &amp; Capitalism</i></a>’s tagline, “Ecosocialism or
barbarism: There is no third way”, is based on the slogan, “Socialism or
Barbarism”, which Rosa Luxemburg raised to such great effect during
World War I and the subsequent German revolution, and which has been
adopted by many socialists since then.<br />
</p><p>The puzzle is: where did the concept come from? Luxemburg’s own
account doesn’t hold water, and neither do the attempts of left-wing
scholars to explain (or explain away) the confusion in her explanation.<span id="more-2099"></span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4114">read more</a></p>capitalismEngelsenvironmenthistoryIan AngusMarxism &amp; ecologyRosa LuxemburgsocialismThu, 23 Oct 2014 22:10:45 -0400normd4114 at http://links.org.auResponding to capitalist global disaster: World War I and todayhttp://links.org.au/node/3995
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<p>The following talk was delivered to the US International Socialist Organization's Socialism 2014 conference
in Chicago, June 28, 2014. It has been edited for publication in <i><a href="http://isreview.org/" target="_blank">International Socialist Review</a></i>. See also John Riddell's article, “<a href="http://socialistworker.org/2014/07/28/capitalisms-first-world-war" target="_blank">Capitalism’s First World War and the Battle Against It</a>“, in <i>Socialist Worker</i>. <span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><a href="/taxonomy/term/858" target="_blank">Read more on <b>World War I</b></a>.</span></span></span></span></p></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>* * * </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<p>By <b>John Riddell</b></p><p>August 5, 2014 --<a href="https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/responding-to-capitalist-global-disaster-1914-and-today/" target="_blank"><i> Johnriddell.wordpress.com</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/3995" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> with the author's permission -- On August 5, 100 years ago, a
Bosnian nationalist assassinated the crown prince of Austria-Hungary,
setting in motion a chain of events that led a month later to the
outbreak of the First World War. </p><p>The war shattered the world socialist
movement and unleashed an overwhelming social catastrophe in Europe,
killing 17 million soldiers and civilians. The resulting
revolutionary struggles brought the war to an abrupt end in 1918, while
toppling the continent’s three great empires and bringing workers and
peasants to power in Russia. The war also contributed to a global rise
of anti-colonial struggles.</p>
<p>What does this unique cataclysm mean for us today? It is useful to
compare World War I with the dangers posed today by climate change and
environmental collapse.<p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3995">read more</a></p>antiwarcapitalismClara Zetkinclimate changeCommunist InternationalhistoryJohn RiddellLeninRosa Luxemburgsocial democracyTrotskyWorld War IWed, 06 Aug 2014 22:52:15 -0400normd3995 at http://links.org.auLiberación nacional y bolchevismo: la aportación de los marxistas de la periferia del Imperio Zaristahttp://links.org.au/node/3886
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<p style="font-size: 11pt">[In English at <a href="/node/3873" target="_blank">http://links.org.au/node/3873</a>. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="ES"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240" target="_blank">Haga clic aquí para más artículos en español</a>.</span>]
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">Por <b>Eric Blanc</b>
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt"><a href="http://www.sinpermiso.info/" target="_blank">Sinpermiso.info</a> -- La perspectiva desde las regiones periféricas del Imperio Zarista nos obliga a repensar muchas presunciones largamente sostenidas sobre las revoluciones de 1905 y 1917, así como la evolución de muchos análisis marxistas sobre la liberación nacional, la lucha campesina, la revolución permanente, y la emancipación de las mujeres.
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">Este artículo analiza los debates socialistas sobre la cuestión nacional hasta 1914. Sostengo en él que la estrategia del marxismo anti-colonial que se acabó imponiendo fue elaborada por primera vez por los socialistas de las nacionalidades periféricas del Imperio Zarista, no por los bolcheviques. Lenin y sus camaradas fueron por detrás de los marxistas no rusos en este tema crucial incluso hasta después de haber comenzado la Guerra Civil. Esta debilidad política ayuda a explicar el fracaso bolchevique a la hora de establecer raíces en los pueblos dominados del Imperio Zarista.
</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3886">read more</a></p>AsiaEspanolEuropeFinlandGeorgiahistoryLatviaLeninnational questionnational question (Russia)PDFPolandRosa LuxemburgRussiaRussian RevolutionUkraineTue, 03 Jun 2014 08:16:23 -0400normd3886 at http://links.org.auNational liberation and Bolshevism re-examined: A view from the borderlandshttp://links.org.au/node/3873
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><i>Bund members and pogrom victims in Odessa, 1905. </i></p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Eric Blanc</b>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">May 28, 2014 – Submitted to <a href="/node/3873" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist
Renewal</i></a> by the author; also available at </span><i><a href="http://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/national-liberation-and-bolshevism-reexamined-a-view-from-the-borderlands/" target="_blank">Johnriddell.wordpress.com</a></i><span lang="EN-US"> -- A view from the Tsarist
empire’s borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the
revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches
to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the
emancipation of women. </span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3873">read more</a></p>AsiaEuropeFinlandGeorgiahistoryLatviaLeninnational questionnational question (Russia)PolandRosa LuxemburgRussiaRussian RevolutionUkraineTue, 27 May 2014 09:10:41 -0400normd3873 at http://links.org.auLuxemburg, Lenin, Levi: Rethinking revolutionary historyhttp://links.org.au/node/3648
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<p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center"><i>Part 1. John Riddell. Parts 2 and 3 below.</i></p><p style="font-size: 11pt">December 14, 2013 -- <a href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls198.php" target="_blank"><i>Left Streamed</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/3648" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i> </a>with permission </p><p style="font-size: 11pt">Moderated by <b>Jackie Esmonde</b>. Presentations by:</p>
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<ul><li><b>John Riddell</b>, editor of <cite>Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International</cite>.</li><li><b>Paul Kellogg</b>, author of “The Only Hope of the Revolution is the Crowd: The Limits of Žižek's Leninism”, <cite>International Journal of Žižek Studies</cite>.</li></ul>
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<p style="font-size: 11pt">More by <a href="/taxonomy/term/586" target="_blank"><b>John Riddell</b></a>. More by <a href="/taxonomy/term/717" target="_blank"><b>Paul Kellogg</b></a>.</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">Sponsored by Education Committee of the <b><a href="http://www.workersassembly.ca/" class="relay" target="_blank">Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly</a></b>.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3648">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalGerman Communist Party (KPD)historyJohn RiddellLeninmultimediaPaul KelloggRosa LuxemburgvideoSun, 29 Dec 2013 21:44:58 -0500normd3648 at http://links.org.auHistory: Why did Paul Levi lose out in the German Communist leadership? (Now with audio)http://links.org.au/node/3427
<a href="http://johnriddell.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/levi.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center"><a href="http://johnriddell.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/levi.jpg"><img src="http://johnriddell.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/levi.jpg?w=241&amp;h=300" class="size-medium wp-image-1623" alt="Paul Levi, 1920" height="300" width="241" /></a> <i></i></div><div style="text-align: center"><i></i><p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center"><i>Paul Levi, 1920.</i></p></div><div style="text-align: center"><p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center"><b>[<a href="/taxonomy/term/586" target="_blank">Click HERE for more by John Riddell</a>.] </b></p><p style="font-size: 11pt" align="left">By <b>John Riddell</b></p><p style="font-size: 11pt" align="left">This talk was part of a panel on “Paul
Levi and the German socialist movement” at the <a href="http://www.socialismconference.org/" target="_blank">Socialism 2013 conference
in Chicago</a>, June 28, 2013. The other speakers at this session were Jen
Roesch and Paul Kellogg. You can listen to the full panel below, thanks to <i>Wearemany.com</i>. </p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://flash-mp3-player.net/medias/player_mp3_maxi.swf" height="50" width="520">
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<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/12/article-2261220-16E3ACD8000005DC-396_634x345.jpg" height="225" width="414" /></div><p>The first document below was produced by opposition members of British Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (authors listed at its conclusion, the best known include <b>Richard Seymour</b>, <b>Neil Davidson</b> and <b>China Miéville</b>). The SWP is the dominant party within the International Socialist Tendency, with affiliates around the world. <a href="/node/3183" target="_blank">The SWP is presently in the midst of a major dispute</a> over inner-party democracy. The article is a reply to SWP leader <a href="http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=12210" target="_blank"><b>Alex Callinicos</b>' recent article, &quot;Is Leninism finished?</a>&quot; </p><p>Following that are two articles by <b>Tom Walker</b>, <a href="http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=12210" target="_blank">a former <i>Socialist Worker</i> journalist who </a><a href="http://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.ca/2013/01/leading-member-of-british-swp-resigns.html" target="_blank">resigned from the SWP</a> during the current dispute<i>.</i> </p><p align="center">* * * </p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3205">read more</a></p>Counterfire (Britain)debateLeninleninismrevolutionary organisationRichard SeymourRosa LuxemburgSWP (Britain)Tony Cliff&#039;s LeninTrotskyismTrotskyist movement (Britain)womenThu, 31 Jan 2013 06:57:00 -0500normd3205 at http://links.org.auForgotten legacies of Bolshevism on revolutionary organisationhttp://links.org.au/node/3177
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://static.gloupe.com/storage1/userpics/30/full_size/c0364d42e9447fedb04b4174475c583d.jpg" width="437" height="316" /></div><blockquote><p align="center"><i>&quot;</i>Iskra<i>. It is often argued that the early period of the organisation of </i>Iskra<i> resembled the small,
highly homogenous and monolithic cadre grouping that today is promoted
as the </i>sine qua non<i> of revolutionary organisation, but if one looks at the original concept of the </i>Iskra<i> editorial board, we can see it promoted debate among a plurality of tendencies.&quot;</i></p></blockquote><p align="center"><b><a href="/taxonomy/term/647" target="_blank">[Click HERE for more discussion on revolutionary organisation.] </a></b></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3177">read more</a></p>BritainCommunist Internationalhistoryleft unityLeninleninismrevolutionary organisationRosa LuxemburgRussian RevolutionTrotskyismWed, 09 Jan 2013 20:44:57 -0500normd3177 at http://links.org.auPaul Le Blanc: Lenin and Luxemburg through each other’s eyeshttp://links.org.au/node/3174
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/LeninRosa.jpg" /></div><p align="center"><i>August Thalheimer, a revolutionary who knew and worked with both of them,
insisted on the formulation “not Luxemburg <b>or</b>
Lenin – but Luxemburg <b>and</b> Lenin”,
explaining that “each of them gave ... what the other did not, and could not,
give”</i>.</p><p>[More by (and about) <b><a href="/taxonomy/term/579" target="_blank">Paul Le Blanc HERE</a></b>, more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/121" target="_blank"><b>Lenin HERE</b></a> and more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/176" target="_blank"><b>Rosa Luxemburg HERE</b></a>.] </p><p>By <a href="/taxonomy/term/579" target="_blank"><b>Paul
Le Blanc</b></a> </p><p>(Talk presented<b> </b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">at the <a href="/node/3164" target="_blank">International
Conference on “Lenin’s Thought in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretation and
Its Value”, Wuhan University, October 20-22, 2012</a>.)</span></p><p>January
3, 2013 – <a href="/node/3174" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg first met in 1901 but actually got to know each
other amid the revolutionary workers’ insurgencies sweeping through Russia and
Eastern Europe in 1905-1906. As Luxemburg biographer J. P. Nettl tells us:</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3174">read more</a></p>historyLeninnational questionPaul Le Blancrevolutionary organisationRosa LuxemburgFri, 04 Jan 2013 00:51:51 -0500normd3174 at http://links.org.auChina: Lenin’s ideas, Marxism discussed at international conference in Wuhanhttp://links.org.au/node/3164
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/LeBlancChina.png" height="282" width="477" /></div> <p align="center">[Read <a href="/node/3135" target="_blank"><b>Paul Le Blanc's keynote address to the <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">international conference</span> HERE</b></a>. For more by (and about) <b><a href="/taxonomy/term/579" target="_blank">Paul Le Blanc HERE</a></b> and more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/121" target="_blank"><b>Lenin HERE</b></a>.]</p><p>By
<b>Paul Le Blanc</b></p>
<p>January 2, 2013 – <a href="/node/3164" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a>
-- Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province in central China, is graced by the
prestigious Wuhan University, which has been the site of international
conferences on two of the world’s foremost revolutionary thinkers and organisers
– Rosa Luxemburg in 2006 and most recently Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. </p>
<p>On October 20-22, 2012, it hosted the &quot;International Conference on Lenin’s
Thought in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretation and its Value”. Both events
were organised under the leadership of Professor He Ping, an outstanding
scholar whose qualities of thoughtfulness and caring result in a loyal
following among her studentsand whose global reach and intellectual openness
have generated impressive intellectual exchanges.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3164">read more</a></p>ChinaCommunist Party of ChinaGramsciLeninMaoismMarxist theoryPaul Le BlancRosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg FoundationWed, 02 Jan 2013 08:06:13 -0500normd3164 at http://links.org.auPaul Le Blanc: International conference in China on Lenin’s thoughthttp://links.org.au/node/3135
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/CHINA%20Wuhan%20Keynote%20address.jpg" /></div><p align="center"><i>Paul Le Blanc presents the keynote address to the <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">international conference
on “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">Lenin’s
thought in the 21st century</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">: interpretation and its
value”, held October 20-22, 2012.</span></i></p><p align="center">[Read more by (and about) <b><a href="/taxonomy/term/579" target="_blank">Paul Le Blanc HERE</a></b> and more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/121" target="_blank"><b>Lenin HERE</b></a>.] </p><p>By <b>Paul Le Blanc</b></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/3135">read more</a></p>ChinahistoryLeninleninismMarxist theoryPaul Le BlancRosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg FoundationRussian RevolutionStalinismThu, 06 Dec 2012 07:20:50 -0500normd3135 at http://links.org.auLessons of the Comintern experience, by Helen Scott, John Riddell and Lars Lihhttp://links.org.au/node/2892
<center><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DudjHB-_e3s?rel=0" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe></center><p>May 12, 2012 -- <a href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/" target="_blank"><i>LeftStreamed</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/2892" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> with permission -- Three presentations from the <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/hmyork/index.html" target="_blank"><i>Historical Materialism </i>conference in Toronto on May 11–13</a>.
</p><p>Presentations by:</p>
<ul><li>Helen Scott, University of Vermont – &quot;Rebuilding the International: Rosa Luxemburg and the Comintern&quot;;</li><li>John Riddell, &quot;The Workers' Government: Fiction, Pseudonym or Transition&quot;;</li><li>Lars T. Lih, &quot;From 'Party of an Old Type' to 'Party of a New Type'&quot;.</li></ul><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2892">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalJohn RiddellLars LihLeninmultimediaRosa LuxemburgTony Cliff&#039;s LeninvideoSun, 03 Jun 2012 01:30:08 -0400normd2892 at http://links.org.auNew voices and new views on revolutionary historyhttp://links.org.au/node/2886
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.yorku.ca/hmyork/docs/120327/images/hmy_2012_5.gif" height="133" width="621" /></div><p>By <b>John Riddell</b></p><p>May 28, 2012 -- <a href="/node/2886" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a><i>/<a href="http://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/new-voices-and-new-views-on-revolutionary-history/#more-967" target="_blank">johnriddell.wordpress.com</a> --</i> Some familiar issues were addressed with originality and new vigour at the <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/hmyork/index.html" target="_blank"><i>Historical Materialism </i>conference in Toronto on May 11–13</a>.
Attendance at the three sessions on revolutionary history, organised by
Abigail Bakan (Queen’s University), ranged between 30 and 75 of the 400
conference participants.</p>
<p>Given that eight of 11 presentations had a European focus, the
discussions were opened fittingly by Montreal scholar Daria Dyakonova
with a paper on a little-studied aspect of revolutionary history here in
Canada: the birth of communism in Quebec.</p>
<p>The pioneers of this movement faced objective obstacles, including
severe repression and formidable opposition by the Catholic Church. In
addition, Dyakonova explained, “after Lenin and especially after 1929”,
the Canadian Communist Party’s “policies were determined from Moscow”.
The line dictated by the leadership of the Communist International
(Comintern) was “often at odds with national or local needs”.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2886">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalCPIGerman Communist Party (KPD)historyJohn RiddellLars LihLeninnational question (USA)QuebecRosa LuxemburgRussian RevolutionTue, 29 May 2012 22:46:23 -0400normd2886 at http://links.org.auPaul Le Blanc: Why Occupy activists should read the greats of revolutionary socialismhttp://links.org.au/node/2767
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/Getpoliticalheader.jpg" height="185" width="603" /></div>
<p align="center"><b>[Read more from <i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i> on <a href="/taxonomy/term/121" target="_blank">Lenin</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/582" target="_blank">Trotsky</a> and <a href="/taxonomy/term/176" target="_blank">Rosa Luxemburg</a>.]</b></p><p>The <b><a href="http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/who_cares_about_revolutionary_socialism" target="_blank">New Left Project'</a></b>s <b>Ed Lewis</b> interviews <b>Paul Le Blanc</b></p>
<p>March 6, 2012 -- Paul Le Blanc is professor of history and political science at
La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of a number of books on
revolutionary and radical politics, most recently <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1360057.Marx_Lenin_and_the_Revolutionary_Experience" target="_blank">Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415878241/" target="_blank">Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism</a></i>. He spoke to Ed Lewis about the <a href="/node/2756" target="_blank">Get Political</a><a href="/node/2756" target="_blank"> campaign</a>,
which aims to bring radical activists of today into critical engagement
with the ideas of Lenin, Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg.</p>
<p>
<b>Ed Lewis: What is the &quot;Get Political&quot; initiative?</b></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2767">read more</a></p>anarchismEngelsLeninleninismMarxist theoryOccupy Wall StreetPaul Le BlancPluto PressRosa LuxemburgStalinismTrotskyTrotskyismWed, 07 Mar 2012 10:46:57 -0500normd2767 at http://links.org.auGet political! Occupy activists urged to engage with writings of Trotsky, Lenin and Luxemburghttp://links.org.au/node/2756
<p align="center"><b>[Read more from <i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i> on <a href="/taxonomy/term/121" target="_blank">Lenin</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/582" target="_blank">Trotsky</a> and <a href="/taxonomy/term/176" target="_blank">Rosa Luxemburg</a>.] </b></p><p>February 23, 2012 -- Fifty key figures on the
left including <a href="/taxonomy/term/577" target="_blank">Ian Angus</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/586" target="_blank">John Riddell</a>, Patrick Bond, <a href="/taxonomy/term/579" target="_blank">Paul Le Blanc</a>, China Miéville, Ken Loach, Lindsey German, Alex Callinicos, Suzi Weissman,
Michael Yates and Immanuel Ness have backed a Pluto Press campaign urging
activists fighting for the 99% to draw inspiration from the lives and writings
of three giants of 20th century political change: Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg
and VI Lenin.</p><p>The &quot;Get Political&quot; campaign statement (see below; also at <a href="http://www.getpoliticalnow.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">www.getpoliticalnow.com</span></a>)
contends that &quot;it will not be a simple thing to win the battle of democracy ...
Luxemburg, Trotsky and Lenin were among the most perceptive and compelling
revolutionaries of the 20th century. The body of analysis, strategy and tactics
to which they contributed was inseparable from the mass struggles of their
time. Critically engaging with their ideas can enrich the thinking and
practical activity of those involved in today’s and tomorrow’s struggles for a
better world.&quot;
</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2756">read more</a></p>LeninleninismOccupy Wall StreetPaul Le BlancPluto PressRosa LuxemburgTrotskyWed, 22 Feb 2012 21:58:52 -0500normd2756 at http://links.org.auCommunist history debated at ‘Historical Materialism’ London conferencehttp://links.org.au/node/2618
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://johnriddell.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ci-tower2.jpg?w=112&amp;h=150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-774" title="CI Tower" height="196" width="146" /><p align="left">By <b>John Riddell </b></p><div align="left">November 25, 2011 -- <a href="http://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/communist-history-debated-at-historical-materialism-london-conference/" target="_blank">http://johnriddell.wordpress.com</a> --The eighth annual conference of Historical Materialism, sponsored by the journal of the same name, held
in London November 10–13 , 2011, featured a coordinated stream of papers
on the history of the world Marxist movement during the era of the
Communist International (Comintern) (1919-43). The 38
presentations in this stream reflected vigorous activity in this field,
while also pointing up some research challenges for historians of the
workers’ movement.<span id="more-760"></span></div></div>
<p>The conference as a whole marked an important expansion of this
event, with some 750 registered participants and more than 400
presentations.</p>
<p><b>Centre and periphery</b></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2618">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalGerman Communist Party (KPD)historyJohn RiddellLeninRosa LuxemburgThu, 24 Nov 2011 23:26:24 -0500normd2618 at http://links.org.auAudio: Who was Rosa Luxemburg?http://links.org.au/node/2407
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.versobooks.com/system/images/391/original/9781844674534-Letters-of-Rosa-Luxemburg.jpg" height="296" width="193" /></div><p>July 15, 2011 -- Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary icon, a pathbreaking
Marxist theorist and, according to the editors of <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/512-the-letters-of-rosa-luxemburg" target="_blank">Verso's new volume of
her correspondence</a>, a &quot;fanatical&quot; letter writer. Essayist, memoirist and critic<b> Vivian Gornick</b>, author of <i>The Men in My Life</i> and <i>Fierce Attachments</i>, who also <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/159924/history-and-heartbreak-letters-rosa-luxemburg" target="_blank">reviewed the new voluime for the US <i>Nation</i></a>, and <b><a href="/taxonomy/term/579" target="_blank">Paul Le Blanc</a>,</b> professor of history at La Roche University and editor of <i>Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings</i> discuss -- and debate -- what Luxemburg's letters can tell us about women
and communism at the dawn of the Soviet era. </p><p>The discussion is hosted by <b>Marissa Brostoff</b> from <b><a href="http://beyondthepale.org/segment/2011/06/12/who-was-rosa-luxemburg">the <i>Beyond the Pale</i> radio program</a></b>. It was broadcast on June 12, 2011.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2407">read more</a></p>audioGermanyhistorymultimediaPaul Le BlancreviewRosa LuxemburgwomenFri, 15 Jul 2011 10:23:16 -0400normd2407 at http://links.org.auPaul Le Blanc: Marxism and organisationhttp://links.org.au/node/2391
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRZSejOLBZf8z_cGh41TS1bdNLgZN56swCDQ9jw_gY_UdnmbrCm3w&amp;t=1" height="247" width="331" /></div><p>By <b>Paul Le Blanc</b></p><p>This presentation was given at the Chicago educational conference of the US International Socialist Organization, <a href="http://www.socialismconference.org/" target="_blank"><i>Socialism 2011</i></a>, on the July 2-3, 2011, weekend. The text first appeared at <a href="http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article22127" target="_blank"><i>Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières</i></a>.</p><p align="center">* * *</p><p>It is always worth examining the question of Marxism and organisation because, if we would like to be organised Marxists who effectively struggle for socialism, we have a responsibility to know what we are about -- and such knowledge is deepened by ongoing examination. There are scholarly reasons for going over such ground, but for activists the primary purpose is to improve our ability to help change the world. There are three basic ideas to be elaborated on here: 1) there must be a coming together of socialism and the working class if either is to have a positive future; 2) those of us who think like that need to work together hard and effectively -- which means we need to be part of a serious organisation; and 3) socialist organisations must be a democratic/disciplined force in actual workers’ struggles -- that is the path to socialism. In what follows I will elaborate on this.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2391">read more</a></p>Communist InternationalGermanyhistoryISO (US)LeninleninismMarxist theoryPaul Le Blancrevolutionary organisationRosa LuxemburgRussiaRussian Revolutionsocial democracyStalinismTrotskyismTue, 05 Jul 2011 01:09:10 -0400normd2391 at http://links.org.auComparing 1911 and 2011: What's relevant for socialists today? http://links.org.au/node/2346
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.cityofart.net/bship/sms_panzer.jpg" height="262" width="440" /></div><p align="center"><i>The German gunboat, Panther, tried to halt French
claims to Morocco in 1911.</i></p><p>By
<b>Dimitris Fasfalis</b>
</p><p>June
4, 2011 – <a href="/node/2346" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- History,
of course, never repeats itself. Yet there are lessons to be learned from past
experiences, especially when similar patterns affect similar historical actors in
different epochs and settings. This seems to be the case for revolutionary
socialists when we compare 2011 and 1911. Despite their differences, these are
times when imperialist war threatens while a revolutionary-democratic upsurge
sweeps vast areas that were thought of as stable, if not stagnant. Hence the
question: what’s relevant for us on the left today in our socialist predecessors’
experience in 1911?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Threat
of imperialist war</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">First,
the early 20th century socialists developed an understanding of the
contradictory dynamics of capitalist globalisation and imperialist rivalries. </span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/2346">read more</a></p>GermanyhistoryMoroccoRosa Luxemburgsocial democracyUS imperialismSat, 04 Jun 2011 07:02:41 -0400normd2346 at http://links.org.au